ARA Meeting 11/18/24

ARA Meeting Agenda

November 18, 2024

Meeting Minutes

  • ARA General Meeting 18NOV2024

    Board Members in Attendance: Dave, Steve, Bichen, Luke, Claire, Edwin, Nima, Max

    Open Session

    Board Special Elections begin with a short introduction from each of the candidates:

    • Harrison

    • William

    • Laura

    • Phil

    • Brendan

    • Stephanie

    • Nathanael

    2025 Invitational

    • Put together a plan and submit to WRC

    • Autotables, discussion on 5 or 6 hanchan per day

    • Google form to submit commentary and format design

    • Voting begins

    Working Group Updates

    Outreach

    • Many things in progress, nothing major to report

    • Shoutout to Laura for work with the ARA socials

    Rules and Judging

    • Steve had an online meeting with Gemma and Sylvain to iron out final draft of lower penalties mod

    • No changes to accidentally revealing tiles, being reviewed and revised higher up

    • ARA and WG free to begin implementing strike system based on new draft

    Tech

    • Update from Nathanael as Tamas is away

    • Trello board made with major action items

    • Import data looks good, see additional updates from Tamas on discord

    IORMC

    • Tournament has concluded

    • USA made a valiant effort, but variance was not on our side

    Education

    • Tourney-in-a-box is ready to share

    • Luke requests more input for the event hosting document on different types of paid event spaces

    • Club-in-a-box is a new resource being worked on

    Charity

    • Nothing to report at this time for the WG

    • $4k raised for the Extra Life Open

    2028 Cycle

    • Presentation about the plan for the 2028 qualification cycle

    • Discussion ongoing

    Open Floor

    • Request for something in the Bylaws about discrimination – already in the works, the Code of Conduct was removed from the Bylaws to make it more agile in editing and will need ratification by the Assembly

    • Reminder to register and pay for the ARA Invitational

    • There is a vote in the assembly to approve a new club

    Closed Session

    • The new Saikouisen pros are technically double dipping on WRC qualification, but this is a Saikouisen issue, and they need to finalize a solution (e.g. get a letter from Saikouisen to have relinquished their ability to qualify for WRC 2025 via the pro org)

    • Autotable in repair for the invitational

    Next Meeting December 16th, 2024